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Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research’s darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green “maturity” assessments and modeling tools to managing corporate carbon footprints. Here’s a breakdown of what it’s offering:

- Accenture Green Maturity Model, which includes 300 questions focused on determining a company’s standing with respect to working practices and office environment, data center operations, procurement policy and corporate citizenship related to managing carbon footprint. The answers to these questions will yield a scorecard that is used to benchmark companies against their industry peers. More information is at this link: www.accenture.com/gmm.

The opportunities in professional services, in outsourcing as well as data center consolidation or virtualization continue. How you as an individual, as a business or a vendor react to this is going to depend on your business, your value proposition.

If we step away from the green angle, the data center carbon footprint, on a purely financial transaction element, the cost of energy is increasing, energy relative availability is decreasing, the need to deliver my IT infrastructure within my operational constraints continues.

Therefore anything that can help improve my current power or cooling capacity, my data center longevity could be a real winner, I might invest a few million dollars, if I can hold off spending another five million on a new data center, on more co-location space. The marginal point is going to change on a per business model, the debate investment against business benefit, how much power/cooling capacity do I gain per dollar spent. There is a point at which the economics aren’t there due to the design, the availability of power, the data center design, cooling etc – thus the bell shaped curve when it comes to analysis.

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